Weymouth company helping Boston homeless in CityPak project

WEYMOUTH – A dozen employees of Hill & Partners are participating in a special program Thursday in Boston to help homeless people.

The CityPak Project will distribute 1,750 specially designed backpacks to area homeless people who receive a variety of health services at six locations throughout Boston.

The versatile backpacks are designed to meet the constantly changing needs of the homeless, who move about frequently.

The South Shore employees of the Libby Park company, which specializes in environmental branding, have contributed in many ways to the CityPak initiative, in conjunction with Boston Health Care for the Homeless.

The health fairs will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Thursday at the New England Center for Homeless Veterans, St. Francis House, Woods Mullen Shelter and Jean Yawkey Place.

From 1 to 4 p.m., the Pine Street Inn will host health fairs at the men and women’s shelter.

Joe Brosnan of Marshfield, senior account manager at Hill & Partners, is leading the local team.

Hill & Partners kicked off a CityPak fundraising campaign for the project with its client, High Sierra, in April, using the Travel Goods Show.

The Weymouth company is offering a donation match up to $5,000 through June 30.

Hill & Partners is also encouraging clients and vendors to contribute items to the backpacks.

These include food, socks, water bottles, gift certificates and personal-hygiene items. Other donated services include shipping and warehousing to pack the packs, other materials and delivery to the event locations.

Hill & Partners staff will also volunteer at the six sites.

The employees include CEO Michael McMahon, Amy Connery of Hanover; Lauren Delcogliano and Rick Lenz, both of Weymouth, Rachelle Kulak, Mike Riley and Mike Geary, all of Hingham , Whitney Crowley of Whitman, John Neil of Scituate, and Chris Odlum and John Grogan, both of Quincy.

CityPak was founded by Chicago businessman and philanthropist Ron Kaplan in 2012.

Sue Scheible may be reached at sscheible@ledger.com or follow on Twitter@SueS_Ledger.

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